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Name That Nightmare

Marvel Comics baddie, Nightmare, pulled double duty last week, appearing in two unrelated titles concurrently, vying for two different goals.

He was paired with Arcade in Deadpool Team-Up (a nightmare in itself), battling Herc and the Merc.

Meanwhile, in Dr. Voodoo, he was using the neophyte doc to gain entrance into our poor, defenseless dimension.

Not only were his motives different in each book, but his overall look and voice were polar opposites. In Deadpool he appeared as a ghostly apparition (left), materializing behind Arcade for a little expository goodness and then disappearing for the duration of the tale.

In Voodoo, he (right) was closer to his traditional characterization, the seething, plotting, otherworldly demon.

It’s enough to make a fanboy dizzy. That is, unless he has a handy scorecard…

Nightmare
(Deadpool Team-Up
#1)

Category

Nightmare
(Dr. Voodoo
#2)

Classic Victorian Gentleman

Fashion

Classic Steve Ditko

Slimy, disgusting third-stringer (Arcade)

Lackey(s)

Slimy, disgusting "Psychlodermic Mindphibian"

Embodiment of Deadpool’s inner voices

Pawn

Daimon Hellstrom

Gary Oldman in "Dracula"

Look

David Bowie in "Labyrinth"

Revenge for Hercules’ part on the war with the Skrull gods

Plot

Use Daimon Hellstrom to trick Voodoo into freeing Nightmare

Disappears before Arcade falls to ubiquitous defeat

Outcome

Gains Dr. Voodoo’s mystic staff. And freedom.

"Only by combining the left brain and the right brain aspects of our powers shall we…"